Skills for Accounting & Finance Teams

Data mining, business intelligence and managing big data is something you’re likely grappling with. Accelerating your team’s ability to gather, store, report and analyze important data through skills like business analytics, social network analysis, relational database management and data warehousing, data modeling and decision trees can help them understand and report on business objectives and drive positive results.

Finance and accounting teams are becoming increasingly more reliant on advanced technology. Giving your team the basic understanding of how these tools function can help them understand their potential impact on your business. We can show them how to develop and train machine learning models and apply linear regression to make predictions, work with control systems related to applications such as robotics, natural language processing, data analytics and artificial intelligence.

Since your accounting and finance team is responsible for the flow of cash, they can often become the target of cyber-attacks. Through hands-on exercises and projects, they’ll create, plan, implement and monitor security solutions to protect critical data, networks and prevent future attacks. Your team can also explore the design of an organization’s security systems procedures, standards, protocols and policies, as well as how to ensure operational security follows standards, policies and laws. 

Many organizations these days deal with complex, and strained supply chains. Having your team knowledgeable about strategic procurement and how to build operation systems to evaluate and select a supply chain transportation strategy can help them become more strategic enlightened partners. 

With marketing technology and demand generation being a large driver of leads for sales, your team could benefit from understanding marketing fundamentals like consumer intent, creating promotions, developing advertising campaigns and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs). Through fascinating case studies, interactive tutorials and real-world projects, our programs can help your team understand this key revenue driver.

Your team’s ability to communicate is crucial to budget management, forecasting and sharing insights. But building confidence, clarity and credibility takes practice. Could your team use help honing their skills in professional speaking, developing written and verbal communications, creating presentations and providing management support?